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[CITE: 48USC1971]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
           CHAPTER 18--MICRONESIA, MARSHALL ISLANDS, AND PALAU
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1971. Transfer of surplus personal property owned by United 
        States
        

(a) Transfer to Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Marshall Islands, and 
        Federated States of Micronesia

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject to valid 
existing rights, and subject to subsection (b) of this section, all 
right, title, and interest of the Government of the United States in 
personal property situated in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 
and of the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in 
personal property wherever located shall be transferred, without 
reimbursement, by a date not later than ninety days following 
termination of the trusteeship agreement governing the administration of 
the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, to the government of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, the Marshall Islands, or the Federated 
States of Micronesia according to a list of distribution established by 
the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in 
consultation with the recipient government.

(b) Declaration that property is surplus

    Personal property referred to in subsection (a) of this section 
shall be transferred upon declaration by the High Commissioner of the 
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands that such property is surplus to 
the needs of the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands, which declaration shall be approved, if applicable, by the head 
of the agency of the Government of the United States having 
administrative responsibility for the property.

(c) Property held in trust

    If no government exists in Palau on December 24, 1980, that is 
capable of receiving title to such property in its own name, the 
government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall hold such 
property in trust for the prospective government of Palau until such 
government is established.

(Pub. L. 96-597, title IV, Sec. 402, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3478; Pub. 
L. 97-357, title II, Sec. 201, Oct. 19, 1982, 96 Stat. 1706.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly set out as a note under section 1681 of this 
title.


                               Amendments

    1982--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97-357, substituted ``by a date not later 
than ninety days following termination of the trusteeship agreement 
governing the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands,'' for ``by October 1, 1982,''.

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of this title.
